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Zero-Based To-Do List
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There’s a thing called Zero-Based Budgeting. I’m not a math person. Or, particularly, a bookkeeping/accounting person. But Zero-Based Budgeting is a concept that appeals to me.
Basically, it involves zeroing out your budget at the end of the month. That doesn’t mean spending every penny. It means giving every penny a job. So, in the end, you don’t have any dangling pennies that don’t have a place to be.
It occurred to me recently that the same could be done with planning.
Zero-Based To-Do List
Maybe someone else has come up with this. I couldn’t find it, if they have. Except, I know that lots of people have talked about big to-do lists and using symbols to note what’s been done or moved or delegated, etc.
That’s the basis of bullet journaling, right? It’s also the basis of keeping a running to do list. And the Getting Things Done method. (I think. I really struggle with wrapping my head around GTD.)
I was able to find some reference to zero-based scheduling — but that’s not the same at all. Zero-based…
